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Cloudability : Cloud Sustainability Metrics 

6 days ago

We have launched multi-cloud cloud sustainability metrics in Cloudability. Cloudability customers can quickly and easily view these metrics to get insights into their public cloud carbon emissions.

The following sustainability metrics can now be accessed from Cloudability reports and dashboards:

  • Estimated Carbon Emissions (MTCO2e) – Captures the estimated carbon emissions in metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents.
  • Power Consumed (kWh) – Captures the Power consumed in kilo watt hours.

The below services are being supported across various cloud vendors:

AWS
Azure
GCP
OCI

EC2

Compute

GCE Compute

EBS

Managed Disk

Persistent Disk

RDS

Azure Database
- SQL Server
- PostgresSQL

Cloud SQL  

A sample dashboard is available within Cloudability to get started, this can be found under All Dashboards/Manage Dashboards.

  •  Sample Dashboard - Cloud Sustainability

The Dashboard acts as a starting point for viewing the Carbon emissions on the public cloud. It takes a top down approach where  Sustainability metrics can viewed in various dimensions:

  • Emissions YTD 
  • Emissions in Last Month
  • Emissions by Regions
  • Emissions Monthly Trends
  • Emissions by Vendor
  • Emissions by Services 

And so on ..

The dashboard can be copied over and updates can be made as desired. 

Within Cloudability one can even drill down to the resource level for emissions for the supported services. The good news is that the preconfigured views will continue to work on Sustainability metrics.

Cloudability also supports brining in Cost data along with Sustainability metrics so that customers can get a consolidated view of Cost and Emissions together in a single Dashboard or a Report.

For using the cloud sustainability metrics in the reports:

  1. Navigate to Cloudability Home.
  2. Click New Report.
  3. Under Cloudability metrics section scroll to the Sustainability category.
  4. Select the metrics.

Frequently Asked Questions

How frequently are the Sustainability metrics updated? 

Sustainability metrics will be triggered on 15th of every month for the previous month (e.g. June process will update the data for May). If a customer onboards after 15th of a month then the metrics will be triggered on the 15th of next month.  

What is the granularity of data supported? 

The data would be available at the resource level for the supported services at a daily level. However the data can be rolled up to various other dimensions like week, month, year, region, service etc.

Which Cloudability SKUs support Sustainability metrics? . 

 These metrics are available for customers having Cloudability Standard and Cloudability Premium SKUs.

 Are additional permissions required for enabling this service? 

There are no additional permissions required for enabling the loud sustainability metrics. 

However there are a couple of prerequisites 

  • advanced credentials should be enabled
  • detailed billing must be enabled for GCP 

For more info , Please search for Cloud Sustainability Reporting in IBM Cloudability Helpdocs or contact our support team

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